Use Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF of an article that isn't available at Lehigh or a scanned PDF of a print article that Lehigh owns. You will get an email when the article is ready for download.
Please use the linked Zoom Whiteboard below to share a source you found using one of Lehigh Libraries' resources. Consider using some of the strategies discussed during class.
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An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Electrical, electronic, and computer engineering journals and conferences from the IEEE and IET; full text. Also includes IEEE standards.
Helps find current articles that cite earlier work. Covers STEM, social sciences, & arts and humanities. Has an emerging sources citation index. Useful for identifying review articles Note: Web of Science generally does not include conference proceedings in search results.
Indexes, abstracts and provides selective full-text for a broad spectrum of magazines, journals and newspapers.
Upgraded from Academic Search Premier in 2019.
Full text of scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title. Primarily humanities and social sciences titles.
There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available through JSTOR. A broad range of disciplines are represented.
The largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities. Search across more than 30 databases at one time. Full-text available. Includes newspapers, journals, popular magazines, trade publications and more.
Search engines and databases may feel similar in many ways, but differ in the contents that they search and retrieve.
Search engines search the internet for your keywords and apply any behind the scenes algorithms to retrieve relevant results from across the web. Results can range in quality and tend to be numerous, making browsing all results highly unlikely. However, the relevance ranking tends to be quite good and the user interface is easy and intuitive.
Databases are more like a box; they are curated resources that contain specific items that have been intentionally added to them. Searches in databases will only retrieve items that have been indexed in them. This allows for a more focused search experience, with some level of quality control of contents and perhaps some level of discipline or format specific curation. There are also many more filters that can be helpful for narrowing your search, rather than just relying on keywords. A downside is that the search can exclude items that may be relevant to your topic if they haven't been included in the database.
Using both search engines and databases is a good strategy for a more comprehensive search experience.
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources. (Note: To maximize access to Lehigh resources, when in Google Scholar, use the Menu icon in the top left, go to Settings, then Library links. Type in Lehigh University and select the check box next to “Lehigh University - Lehigh Links.” If we do not subscribe to an article, this setting will enable a Lehigh Link to obtain the article via other access or interlibrary loan.)
To narrow your search results try:
To expand your search results try:
Use the VPN (Virtual Private Network) to access Lehigh's electronic resources from off-campus. View the video to learn how.